Shoe-cleaner.



PATENTED MAR. 5, 19.07.

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' SHOE CLEANER.

APPLIOATION FILED HOV.20,1906.

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SAMUEL FELD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHOE-CLEANER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 5, 1907.

Application filed November 20,1906. Serial No. 344,199.

T 0 (LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL FELD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Cleaners, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to produce a simple device suitable for building-entrances which may be used instead of the ordinary door-mat and which will be operated by power to thoroughly clean the bottom and edges of shoes.

In the drawing forming part of this application, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improvements, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation with the parts broken away on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

In the construction of my device I provide a suitable tray 1, which consists of a bottom 2, sides 3, and an end 4, in which the parts are hung and which will serve as a receptacle for the dirt as it is removed from the shoes. This receptacle may be placed at the en trance of a building and serve, together with the working parts hereafter described, the same purpose as an ordinary doormat.

Extending across and partly within the receptacle, which I will call a tray, are a series of circular brushes 5, which may be mounted upon suitable shafts 6 6 which extend through and are journaled in the sides of the tray and may be held there by journalbearings 7, which are secured to the sides of the tray. The brushes are circular for most of their length and at each end are provided with outwardly-extending bristles 8, which will come up over the edges of the sole of the shoe, so that not only the bottom of the shoes will be cleaned, but the edges of the soles as we'll. Between each of the brushes I provide a cross-piece 9, which is secured to the sides of the tray and is below the plane of the top of the brushes. These are for the purpose of sustaining the weight of a person I i l in the event that the whole weight is thrown upon thebrushes. If the shoe is pressed too heavily, these cross-pieces will receive the weight of the person and prevent any injury to the brushes or their parts. These brushes are so connected as to revolve swiftly, and for this I provide suitable sprocket-chains 10, 11, and 12, which engage the sprockets 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18, placed on extensions of the axles. The chain 10 serves as a connecting means for the shafts of the two right-hand brushes. Chain 11 connects one of these two shafts with the third shaft, and chain 12 engages the third shaft with the left-hand shaft, so that they all move in llnlSOIl.

I preferably provide electrical means for rotating the brushes, and for this purpose I have applied a small dynamo 19 to the opposite end of the shaft 6 of the left-hand brush.

As it is desired to clean the shoes the shoe is placed on the top of the brushes, which will engage and brush the sole, while the projecting bristles 8 will surround the edges of the soles and clean them. By turning on the current in the dynamo the brushes will revolve swiftly, clean the shoes, and the dirt dropping to the bottom of the tray can be removed by placing it on its edge 1.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- In a device of the class described, the combination of a tray, a series of revoluble brushes journaled to the tray, the brushes having longer bristles at each end than near the middle, and a series of bars fixed to the tray between and below the upper plane of the brushes, and means for rotating said brushes.

Signed this 19th day of November, 1906.

- SAMUEL FELD. Witnesses:

GUsTAvE I. ARMoNn, CHARLES G. HENsLEY. 

